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Man's value does not consist in either an explosive maniac sincerity or an unquestioned faith. Instead, it consists of a higher awareness which enables him to determine the moment when it is reasonable to take things on trust and the moment when questioning is in order, to combine faith and good faith within himself, and to accept his party or his group with open eyes, seeing them for what they are.

-"Faith and Good Faith"

Program for the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle
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Thursday, September 15 Friday, September 16 Saturday,September 17



8:00-9:15 Registration, Coffee, Light Breakfast
   
Session One | Moderator: Gail Hamner, Syracuse University
   
9:15-10:00 Critique of Transcendental Violence: Images of Violence and Passivity in Merleau-Ponty's Descriptions of the Flesh
  Ann Murphy, Fordham University
   
10:00-10:45 Merleau-Ponty and the Manifestation of the Sacred
  William Hamrick, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
   
10:45-11:00 Refreshments
   
Session Two | Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University
   
11:00-11:15 Welcome from Provost Mark Krejci and Dean Jim Aageson
   
11:15-12:00 Flesh Ensouling
  Glen Mazis, Penn State University Harrisburg
   
12:00-12:45 "A Confirmation of its Astonishment": Ontological Humility in Merleau-Ponty
  Nancy Holland, Hamline University
   
12:45-2:00 Lunch - discount avaliable in Kuntsen Center downstairs.
   
Session Three |Moderator: Oz Blaker, Temple University
   
2:00-2:45 Merleau-Ponty's mundis imaginalis: towards an apophatic ontology of reality
  Elodie Boublil, McGill University
   
2:45-3:30 The Music of Being and the Silence of Nature
  Ted Toadvine, University of Oregon
   
3:30-4:00 Refreshments
   
Session Four |Moderator: Matthew Goodwin, Northern Arizona University
   
4:00-4:45 From the Phenomenology of Lived Space to the Ontology of 'Immemorial Depth'
  Scott Marratto, Michigan Tech University
   
4:45-5:45 Further Questions: A Way Out of the Present Philosophical Situation (via Merleau-Ponty)
  Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University
   
Reception
   
6:00-7:30 Prairie Rose Room, Radisson Hotel


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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